Golden Sun (GBA) — Price Guide & Live Deals
Live Golden Sun GBA deals from loose carts to CIB: fair asking prices, the $10 'GB-GBA-NDS' carts to avoid, and the Lost Age and import mix-ups.
Right now: Loose prices roughly flat over 90 days, 48 current qualifying listings.
Current qualifying listings
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Golden Sun CIB W/ World Map 2001 Nintendo Game Boy Advance GBA Authentic Tested
$129.99 USD
Free shipping
★ 100% · 111 ratings
Listed today · checked 1h ago
Golden Sun GBA (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2001) Authentic Cartridge - TESTED
$44.99 USD
Free shipping
★ 100% · 849 ratings
Listed yesterday · checked yesterday
Golden Sun Nintendo Game Boy Advance GBA Tested Working Cartridge Only
$35.00 USD
Free shipping
★ 100% · 1,806 ratings
Listed yesterday · checked yesterday
Golden Sun (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2002) Both Games
$55.00 USD
Shipping calculated
★ 99.8% · 3,193 ratings
Listed yesterday · checked yesterday
4 GBA Manuals ONLY Zelda , Wario, golden sun, Bomberman.
$40.00 USD
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★ 99.9% · 1,288 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun - Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Cartridge Only | Tested
$33.00 USD
Shipping calculated
★ 100% · 46 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun Nintendo GBA *Cart Only*
$69.99 USD
+$17.50 shipping
★ 99.7% · 72,072 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun - Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Cartridge Only | Tested
$49.95 USD
Free shipping
★ 100% · 10,587 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
GBA JRPG GRAIL! Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance, 2001) CIB : Tested
$67.66 USD
+$15.74 shipping
★ 100% · 42 ratings
Listed 3 days ago · checked 3 days ago
Golden Sun (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2002)
$33.00 USD
★ 100% · 802 ratings
Listed 3 days ago · checked 3 days ago
*MINT* Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance 2001) - CIB w/ Map & Reg Card - TESTED
$170.00 USD
Shipping calculated
★ 99.4% · 164 ratings
Listed 4 days ago · checked 4 days ago
Golden Sun (Nintendo Game Boy Advance GBA, 2001) Complete CIB - Tested & Works
$109.99 USD
Free shipping
★ 100% · 212 ratings
Listed 4 days ago · checked 4 days ago
About 1.2 qualifying listings appear per day on average.
Asking-price ranges by condition
| Condition | Min | 25% | Median | 75% | Max | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loose | $24.00 | $33.00 | $39.99 | $44.99 | $104.99 | 63 |
| Cib | $67.66 | $110.00 | $119.99 | $160.00 | $199.95 | 13 |
Asking prices of currently-active listings. Not sold-price data.
Full asking-price history by condition →
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How we filter
Every feed has its own filter, tuned by hand for this one game. Before any change goes live, those filters are tested against thousands of real eBay listing titles. Every night, each feed is checked against every other deal page in its category, so a listing for a different game that slips in gets flagged and fixed instead of quietly shown.
Of the 207 listings we observed for this game in the last 30 days, we filtered out 172 of 207 (~83%) for quality reasons. The remaining 35 are what we'd actually surface.
- 148 matched a bootleg / out-of-scope keyword
- 10 seller had too few feedback ratings
- 7 shipped from a region we exclude
- 3 caught by a junk-listing guard
- 3 priced below our floor (too good to be true)
- 1 seller positive-feedback percentage too low
What the feed excludes
An eBay search for Golden Sun (GBA) returns far more than the game itself: controllers, T-shirts, strategy guides, imports and repro carts all mention it in their titles. These are the 99 terms we filter out to keep this feed to the real thing. A listing whose title contains any of them never reaches the feed, the price table or an alert. Many look unrelated to Golden Sun (GBA) because they are: that's the noise.
Other titles & look-alikes 6
- -lost age
- -lost ark
- -lost era
- -dark dawn
- -re-po
- -nds
Bootlegs & repros 5
- -custom case
- -repro
- -reproduction
- -aftermarket
- -repo
Broken, untested & empty listings 15
- -for parts
- -not working
- -non-working
- -non working
- -as is
- -as-is
- -untested
- -doesnt work
- -does not work
- -not tested
- -parts only
- -no game
- -game not included
- -cart not included
- -broken
Imports & regions 9
- -japanese
- -ntsc-j
- -famicom
- -korean
- -jpn
- -jp
- -pal
- -eur
- -japan
Ports, remakes & re-releases 1
- -ds
Lots & multi-item listings 8
- -lot
- -bundle
- -collection
- -set of
- -multiple games
- -3 games
- -4 games
- -5 games
Accessories, merch & paper 55
- -controller
- -headset
- -headphones
- -plush
- -figure
- -figurine
- -keychain
- -sticker
- -charger
- -cable
- -adapter
- -backpack
- -wallet
- -shirt
- -hoodie
- -jersey
- -art book
- -artbook
- -soundtrack
- -vinyl
- -statue
- -amiibo
- -funko
- -pop figure
- -mousepad
- -lanyard
- -badge
- -trading cards
- -tcg booster
- -bookmark
- -instruction booklet
- -manual booklet
- -promo item
- -promotional
- -insert only
- -flyer
- -pamphlet
- -display card
- -demo cart
- -kiosk
- -case only
- -case-only
- -clamshell only
- -box and case
- -replacement box only
- -strategy guide
- -player's guide
- -manual only
- -box only
- -ost
- -pin
- -art
- -nfr
- -hat
- -poster
How often qualifying deals appear
- 15 in the last 7 days (~2.14/day)
- 36 in the last 30 days (~1.2/day)
- 36 in the last 90 days (~0.4/day)
Golden Sun: collector & reseller spec sheet
- Saves on the cartridge. Progress is stored on the cart itself, so ask the seller to confirm a save survives a power-off. The ending also hands out a password (or a link-cable transfer) that carries your party into the sequel, The Lost Age.
- Product code. A US cart's label code ends in
-USA. Check it matches the US release rather than a European or Japanese one. - CIB means the map too. Complete listings often call out the fold-out world map, and sellers title it "poster" or "map". A box-and-cart copy without it is not fully complete, so price it below a true CIB.
- The $10 "GB-GBA-NDS" carts. A run of near-identical listings, often marked "Brand New", sell for around a tenth of the authentic loose asking price. The feed drops anything tagged NDS and anything under its price floor. Treat any copy far below the going rate as a reproduction.
- Sequel and import mix-ups. The Lost Age shares the title words, and sellers misspell it ("Lost Ark", "Lost Era"). The feed drops all of these, along with Japanese copies and the Korean release. Sellers who title Golden Sun "The Broken Seal" are allowed through, but read the label photo before you buy.
Buying Game Boy Advance games: what to check by condition
These checks apply to every Game Boy Advance cartridge. The item notes above cover what is specific to this game.
Loose
- Compare the label, shell color and front/back markings against a photo of a known-authentic cart. Repro labels are often glossier, blurrier or slightly off-color.
- Ask for a photo of the board or the back of the cart. An opened shell is not automatically bad (battery swaps are normal), but it should be disclosed.
- If the game saves to a battery, ask whether the save holds. Old save batteries fail with age regardless of what the listing says, so budget for a replacement.
CIB (complete in box)
- Confirm the box, manual and inner tray or insert are all shown in the photos, not just listed in the title.
- Check that the box and manual are the same region and print as the cart. Mixed-and-matched "complete" copies are common.
- Box wear (crushing, tears, sticker residue) moves price far more than the cart does. Judge it from photos, not from the word "mint".
Sealed & graded
- For a graded copy, look the certification number up on the grading company's own site and confirm the photos match the slab you are buying.
- For an ungraded sealed copy, compare the wrap and seal pattern against a known factory-sealed example. Resealing is common, and a reseal on a loose game is worth a loose price.
- Ask for photos of every side, the seams and any price stickers. Refusing extra photos on a sealed listing is a red flag on its own.
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